Is every life valuable? “Of course,” you’ll say when—by chance—your vacation is interrupted by the discovery of a dead young woman. “Of course,” when news of new victims keeps coming again and again. But there will come a moment when you can’t answer this question so unequivocally.
Detective novelist Svetlana Lebedeva decided to spend a cool May day with her husband by the pond. But along with an accidental find, she is pulled into a chain of brutal crimes that, it seemed, the police would never be able to prevent.